Mizuho Financial Group, one of the largest financial institutions in the world, and Cognizant, a provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, have announced a strategic agreement to develop a blockchain solution for secure record-keeping of documents among Mizuho Financial Group companies around the world.

A new software service to make large volumes of complex unstructured file data more visible and accessible to users, IT managers and CIOs has been launched by Kazoup.

Hyland, creator of OnBase enterprise content management (ECM) software, has established an Australian reseller partnership with solution provider Fusion Information Management.

Information Builders has updated its Omni-Patient offering, an information management solution that integrates and cleanses disparate sets of healthcare data, including multiple electronic medical records (EMRs) as well as financial and HR systems.

Lexmark has announced the release of ReadSoft Online R8, a cloud-based invoice processing solution designed specifically for accounts payable functions in small and medium businesses.

SearchBlox has announced the release of version 8.4 of its Enterprise Search software. New features include indexing support for 35 data sources through database collection, sentiment analysis, entity extraction, and HTTP API, which allows external applications to programmatically setup and control Web site indexing.

Top Image Systems (TIS) has announced a global reseller agreement with Xerox to give customers end-to-end automation solutions for industry-specific, content-driven processes.  Content processing solutions from TIS will be integrated into Xerox’s workflow automation suite, which helps simplify end-to-end processes for a range of industries including financial services, healthcare and government.

Local Government software developer Civica has launched a new SharePoint platform to provide online portals, enterprise workflow, and integration and CRM capabilities. Contact360 is decribed as a customer contact and transactional platform for councils in Australia and New Zealand.

Access Innovations, Inc. and dataCloud, LLC have teamed up to create Topic Seeker, a semantics-based solution for big data. Topic Seeker analyses text-based content and organizes it by topic, allowing publishers and other organizations to see changing trends in their respective fields, develop conference tracks based on current topic relevance, and many other applications.

ABBYY has announced two new language-based products enabling businesses to understand and act on complex, unstructured information. Based on the company’s Compreno natural-language processing (NLP) technology, ABBYY InfoExtractor SDK and ABBYY Smart Classifier enable development of next generation smart business process applications, accelerating business decisions and insights for industries, including oil and gas, insurance, healthcare, financial services and government, among others.